Fire-escape



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J. R. FULLER.

EIEE ESCAPE.

No. 331,489. Patented Dec. 1 1885.

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FIRE ESCAPE.

No. 331,489. Patented Dec. 1, 1885.

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JENNIE RATHBUN FULLER, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

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ESPECLFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,489, dated December 1 1885.

Application filed October 9, 1885. Serial No.179A37.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JENNIE It. FULLER, of Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Fire- Escape, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved fire-escape,which is so constructed that it can be stretched from the burning building across the street to the 0pposite building and secured firmly to the latter.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts and details, as will be fully described and set forth hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved fireescape as it is when in use. Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the same, the railing on one side being folded. Fig. 3 is a general perspective view of the fireescape. Fig. 4 is a face View of the pocket containing the rope ladder, parts being broken out.

The escape-bridge is made of a strong piece, A, of several united pieces of sail-cloth or canvas, to the upper surface of which a series of slats, B, are secured transversely at like in tervals. On each end of the piece of canvas an elongated metal loop or bail, G, is secured, to one of which the two ropes D and to the other of which the two hooks D are secured. To some of the slats the railing-posts E are hinged to swing down on the slats, and through the said posts the railing-ropes F are passed.

\Vhen the fire-escape is not in use, the rail,- ing is folded down on the piece A,and is rolled up with the same, and the entire device, which is held by the hooks D to the wall of the building, is folded below the window-sill on the inside.

Below the sill of a window of the opposite house a piece, J, of sail-cloth or canvas is secured to the wall at its upper edge, and to said piece J the piece K is secured at its upper edge, and forms a pocket for receiving a rope ladder, L, which is secured to the piece (No model.)

ground. The pieces J and K are provided with a series of apertures, M, through which the ends N of a rope, O, are passed, which rope extends across the street to the building to which the canvas bridge A is secured. The ends of the rope O, passed through the apertures M, hold the piece K on the piece J, and prevent the rope ladder from falling down.

My improved fire escape is used in the fol lowing manner: In case of fire the canvas bridge A is thrown down and out of the window, one end being held to the building from which the bridge was thrown by the hooks D. At the same time the rope O is pulled and the ends N are withdrawn from the apertures M, thus permitting the rope ladder L to drop. One or two men ascend the rope ladder and pull up the free end of the bridge A by means of the ropes D, and after drawing the bridge taut over the street fasten the free end of the same so that the persons can walk safely from the burning building to the opposite building.

The railings are swung up to avert the danger of persons falling from the bridge.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a fire-escape, the combination, with the canvas bridge A, of the slats B on the same, the railing-posts E, hinged on the slats B, to swing on the same, and of the railingropes F, held in the said posts, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In a fireescape, the combination, with the piece J, of the piece K on the same, and of the rope ladder L, fastened on the piece J, substantially as herein shown and described.

8. In a fire-escape, the combination, with the piece J, having the apertures M M, of the piece K, secured on the piece J, and also having the apertures M, the rope ladder L, secured to the piece J, and of the rope O, having the end pieces, N, substantially as herein shown and described.

4.. In a fire-escape, the combination, with a flexible bridge secured to one building, of a receptacle containing a rope ladder on the J, and is of such length that it reaches to the opposite building, substantially as herein the receptacle containing the rope ladder, subshown and described. stantially as shown and described.

5. In a fire-escape the combination with a flexible bridge sec ured to a buildingacf a JENNIE RATHBUN FULLER 5 receptacle containing a rope ladder on the op- Witnesses:

posite building, and of a rope extending from E. L. HAMILTON,

one building to the other and connected with THOS. H. TRACY. 

